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Soccer Football – FIFA Arab Cup – Qatar 2025 – Group A – Palestine v Tunisia – Lusail Stadium, Lusail, Qatar – December 4, 2025 Palestine’s…
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Glory Of The Stars extended her perfect season with a breath-taking performance in the Lusail Cup for three-year-old+ Thoroughbred fillies and mares over 1200m yesterday.At the Al Uqda turf track, the five-year-old bay mare, owned by Eng. Hassan Ali Alabdulmalik and trained by Debbie Mountain, was still last approaching the final 300m before unleashing a devastating outside run. Under a well-timed ride from Jefferson Smith, she swept past the entire field to secure a commanding 1¼-length victory, making it two wins from two starts this season.Glory Of The Stars delivered a breath-taking late surge to win the day’s feature race, contested by 12 runners. The five-year-old bay mare, racing for Hassan Ali Alabdulmalik, trained by Debbie Mountain and superbly handled by Jefferson Smith, remained unbeaten this season, securing her second win from as many starts with a commanding 1¼-length success.Breaking from barrier seven, Glory Of The Stars was dropped out early and settled at the tail of the field where she remained for most of the contest. Up front, Kaliysta took the early initiative before Seduisante moved forward approaching the first bend.Around the final turn, Ripple Effect, who had been travelling in third, briefly edged to a narrow lead as the field closed tightly together. Yet the moment belonged entirely to Glory Of The Stars. Still last at the 300m mark, she switched wide and unleashed a devastating turn of foot, sweeping past her rivals with a powerful, sustained run. Under a perfectly timed ride from Smith, she surged clear in the final strides to seal a stylish and authoritative victory.Behind her, September Leaves, carrying the Al Eida Racing silks for trainer Jassim al-Ghazali under Marco Casamento, finished strongly to claim second. Just a quarter of a length behind came Nano Toro, representing the same connections as the winner and ridden by Mohammed Hassan Ali Alabdulmalik, securing third after a late flourish. Source link
Verstappen relaxed despite possible fifth title, comeback from 104 points down has been remarkable
Red Bull Racing’s Dutch driver Max Verstappen attends a press conference ahead of the Abu Dhabi Formula One Grand Prix at the Yas Marina Circuit in…
Australia pace bowler Mitchell Starc said yesterday he could not be compared with Wasim Akram after he surpassed the Pakistani great as the leading left-arm pace bowler in Test history.Starc’s six-wicket haul on day one of the second Ashes Test in Brisbane gave him 418 Test wickets, four more than Akram.”Wasim’s still a far better bowler than I am,” said Starc.”So as far as I’m concerned, he’s still the pinnacle of left-armers and certainly he’s right up there with the best bowlers to ever play the game.”It’s nice to be spoken of up around that, but I’ll just try to keep churning a few out.”Starc led the Australian attack in the day-night match at the Gabba in the absence of his usual strike partners Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood, who are injured, and spinner Nathan Lyon, who was dropped.”I don’t think I’ve ever played in an attack without one of the three of them playing,” Starc said.”So it’s a little bit different in that regard.”The 35-year-old, who has taken 16 wickets in the series, was the only Australian bowler to trouble the English batsmen consistently on Thursday.Starc went past Akram’s mark when he bagged England’s Harry Brook, caught at slip, for his 415th wicket and third of the innings.Akram, widely recognised as the greatest left-arm bowler the sport has seen, played 104 Tests for his 414 wickets.Starc, who made his debut at the Gabba 14 years ago, was playing his 102nd Test and shows no sign of slowing down.He took a career-best 7-58 in the first innings of the opening Ashes Test at Perth.Starc is now 15th on the all-time wicket-taker list after moving above Indian spinner Harbhajan Singh’s total of 417.He now has South Africa’s Shaun Pollock (421) in his sights and New Zealand’s Richard Hadlee (431).He needs just 16 more wickets to go past the most prolific left-arm bowler of all-time – Sri Lanka spinner Rangana Herath, who claimed 433 wickets. Source link
New Zealand’s Rachin Ravindra (right) and Tom Latham run between the wickets during day three of the first Test against West Indies at Hagley Oval in…
Hosts Qatar were left clinging to their FIFA Arab Cup hopes after a stunning 90th-minute equaliser from Syria’s Omar Khribin sealed a dramatic 1-1 draw at the Khalifa International Stadium last night, a result that leaves Julen Lopetegui’s side needing victory in their final Group A match against Tunisia, and possibly help elsewhere, to reach the knockout stages.The draw came on a night of high drama, with Palestine also striking late to earn a 2-2 comeback against Tunisia and move to the brink of the last eight. The back-to-back thrillers leave Group A delicately poised. With only a match left to play in the group stage, Qatar’s fate is no longer in their own hands. Palestine and Syria lead the group and both need only a draw in their final matches to qualify. Qatar must beat Tunisia in their last group game to have any chance of progressing. Even with victory, Qatar may still need: Syria to lose to Palestine, or a favourable swing in goal difference if Syria draw and Qatar win big. A draw or defeat for Qatar will eliminate the hosts. It leaves Lopetegui under mounting pressure, as Qatar attempt to avoid a second straight early exit from their home tournament. Syria again showcased their grit on the big stage, with Khribin’s spectacular long-range rocket earning them a point and silencing the capacity crowd inside Khalifa International Stadium.Qatar had produced their strongest spell of the tournament after the break. Ahmed al-Aaedin rose high to head in Edmilson Junior’s cross in the 77th minute, giving the hosts hope of igniting their campaign after an opening loss to Palestine. But Syria, who had threatened through Khribin earlier, including a chipped effort heroically cleared off the line by Mohammed Waad, refused to wilt. Deep into the 90th minute, Khribin unleashed a fierce strike into the top corner, a goal worthy of any stage, leaving Lopetegui’s men devastated. Earlier, Palestine rescued a vital late point to keep their historic knockout push on track at the Lusail Stadium. Goals from Hamed Hamdan and a composed 85th-minute finish by Zaid Qunbar, who was named player of the match, earned them a deserved 2–2 draw after Tunisia had led through Amor Layouni and Firas Chaouat. Roared on by a 45,000-strong crowd, Tunisia responded to their opening defeat against Syria with an assertive first hour. A deflected corner allowed Layouni to tap home the opener before Chaouat doubled the lead soon after the break, sweeping in after Mohamed Ali Ben Romdhane powered through midfield. But Palestine rallied superbly. Hamdan’s rasping volley dragged them back into the contest, and Qunbar’s late strike, drilled through two defenders, sent their bench into wild celebrations as they edged closer to their first-ever Arab Cup knockout appearance. Related Story Source link
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Screenshot 2025-12-04 at 11-48-02 (19) Qatar News Agency (@QNAEnglish) _ X According to the procedures officially announced by FIFA, the draw for the FIFA World Cup 2026 finals will begin by placing the 12 teams from each of the four pots into separate containers.The three host nations will be placed in Pot 1, while the four pots for the teams that qualified through the European play-offs and the two pots for the teams that qualified through the intercontinental play-offs will be placed in Pot 4, ensuring a balanced distribution of teams during the draw.The draw ceremony is scheduled to begin with all the teams from Pot 1 being drawn to groups A to L. The remaining teams will then be drawn from Pots B through D.FIFA has imposed specific restrictions on the World Cup 2026 draw process. The three host nations will first be designated with different colored balls to ensure a predetermined selection process: the green ball will represent Mexico, placing them at the top of Group A; the red ball will represent Canada, placing them at the top of Group B; and the blue ball will represent the United States, placing them at the top of Group C.As for the remaining nine teams in the pot 1, they will be allocated balls of the same color, and each team will be placed at the top of the group that will be determined by the draw, thus ensuring an organized and balanced distribution.In this context, FIFA was keen to avoid the two highest-ranked teams (Spain, ranked first, and Argentina, ranked second) facing each other before the final (in the event that they topped their groups in the first round), by placing them in two separate paths leading to the semi-finals, in order to maintain a balance in the distribution of teams. The same will apply to both (France, ranked third) and (England, ranked fourth), where the two paths will be chosen randomly, in an effort to avoid the best-ranked teams facing each other early on.As for Pots 2, 3, and 4, each team’s position within its group will be determined according to the draw procedure. This ensures that each team’s position within its group is determined based on the pot from which it was drawn and the group it was placed in.FIFA will apply the principle of no more than one team from the same confederation being in the same group. This applies to all confederations except UEFA, which has 16 teams participating in the tournament. Since this number of teams cannot be distributed across the 12 groups, no more than two European teams can be in any one group.The implementation of the principle of separation means that no more than one team from the same continental federation should be in one group, by applying the continental federations’ restriction to the three teams that will compete within each of the two paths related to the two seats allocated for the global play-off in Pot 4.FIFA had set Dec. 6 as the date for announcing the details of the group stage matches, in order to achieve the best possible conditions for all teams, and to enable fans in different countries around the world to follow their favorite teams across different time zones, according to the rule followed in determining the stadiums of the matches and the timing of their start. (QNA) Related Story Source link
Jordan on Wednesday exhibited courage against a superior opponent when they beat regional football powerhouse UAE 2-1 in a thrilling contest on day three of the FIFA Arab Cup Qatar 2025.Ali Olwan (20′) converted a penalty kick in the first half while teammate Yazan Al-Naimat (63) hoodwinked his marker and the UAE ‘keeper in the second to score the decisive goal in the Group C clash at Al Bayt Stadium.For the UAE, Bruno Oliveira had netted one in the 47th but Jordan remained resolute after Al-Naimat’s smart finish in the second half to complete a deserving win in the 16-team tournament.Earlier Algeria on Wednesday kicked off their FIFA Arab Cup title defence with a scoreless draw against Sudan in Group D. The 2021 champions played the entirety of the second half with ten players following Adam Ounas’ sending off, and defended resolutely to bank a point.The other Group D clash saw Iraq ease past Bahrain 2-1 in DohaTen-man Algeria dug deep to secure a point against Sudan at Ahmad Bin Ali Stadium. The defending champions created the best chances of the first half, with Sofiane Bendebka heading just wide and Adil Boulbina forcing a smart save from Mohamed Alnour.The game took on an entirely different complexion, however, when Algeria striker Adam Ounas was sent off for a second bookable offence on the stroke of half-time.With their numerical advantage, Sudan controlled possession after the break. They came close to opening the scoring when Abdelrazig Yagoub lashed a shot into the side netting, but struggled to carve out regular clear-cut opportunities. Algeria defended with authority and determination to keep them at bay as the game finished all square.Iraq 2-1 BahrainFour years ago Iraq and Bahrain clashed in the same group with both failing to advance; this time the Lions of Mesopotamia took an important initial step to the knockouts with a 2-1 win in Doha.It took Iraq just ten minutes to strike as an Aymen Hussein effort was bundled into his own goal by Ebrahim Lutfalla. Having injured himself in that passage of play, the goalkeeper was replaced shortly after by Omar Salem, who then watched on as Mohanad Ali doubled the Iraq advantage from close range midway through the opening stanza.Bahrain substitute Sayed Hashim pulled one back late on as he tucked home a well-weighted Abdulla Al Khalsai cross but in the end Iraq hung on to make a winning start. Source link